A Guide to the Katina Simmons Video Collection, 1987-1995

Various formats of
video masters, dubs, and source tapes, as well as non-video material including
production files, scripts, correspondence, tape logs and shot lists, relate to
the production of thirty-four short documentaries by Katina Simmons for
KXAS-TV, a Dallas/Fort Worth NBC-affiliate between 1987 and 1995.

Katina Simmons is a native of Amarillo
who has produced thirty short documentary films for KXAS-TV, a Dallas/Fort
Worth NBC-affiliate and produced four in-house films for Texas museums, through
her production company, Mayah Productions. Simmons has also served as curator
of the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi.

Various formats of video masters, dubs,
and source tapes, as well as non-video material including production files,
scripts, correspondence, tape logs and shot lists, relate to the production of
thirty-four short documentaries by Katina Simmons for KXAS-TV, a Dallas/Fort
Worth NBC-affiliate between 1987 and 1995.

Also included are production materials, both video and non-video, for
four museum education films produced by Simmons between 1989 and 1995 and never
televised. Material used for projects outside the KXAS-TV and museum pieces is
also included.

Use Restrictions

The copyrights to all programs produced by Mayah Productions, Inc.
have been transferred to the University of Texas at Austin on behalf of the
Center for American History. See Exhibit A in the holding record for the
restrictions on specific films.